Glossary Results for prefix "to"
| Token | Another term for a staff or tablet. |
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| Top Light | Auxilliary fixed windows located above the main windows (“longlights”) on the corridor side of the vehicle. These admitted more light and also allowed a standing passenger to see out. Specifically a style of carriage body construction adopted by the LNWR from 1911 onwards which formed a sharp break with the Wolverton “traditional” body style. | |
| Torpedo Ventilators | Another name for Laycock’s ventilators |
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| TPO – Travelling Post Office | Specially constructed vehicle for the conveyance (and often the sorting) of letter and/or parcel mail under contract to the Post Office, and manned by GPO staff. The LNWR and West Coast Joint Stock owned far more of these vehicles than any other company. |
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| Train Out Of Section | A signalling bell-coded message (2 beats, pause, 1 beat) given by a signalman to the signal box in-rear when a train (complete with tail lamp) has passed the signal box of the signalman giving the message and hence the section is unoccupied. The signalman in-rear is then free to offer another train. |
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| TT Gauge | See Model Gauges. |